Chris McCandless relates to Everett Ruess Chris and Everett defiantly have a strong relation to each other in a number of ways as stated by Jon Krakauer. One of the best relations is that they both absolutely love the wilderness; in fact they both love it enough to die for it, because we know Chris died in the bus on the Stampede Trail in Alaska. Nobody knows exactly how Everett died but people think he either fell off of a cliff, Drowned, or was murdered. There is really no way of telling because his body was never found or any evidence pointing to any of the accusations. Both McCandless and Ruess had short lives, dieing in their 20s. They also probably would have agreed that they lived their lives out how they wanted to and were happy. Despite Chris’ S.O.S note, I believe Chris loved the way he lived and died the way he wanted to, but he had a deep earning to live on and have a greater relationship with the wild. I believe Ruess would have had the same feelings as Chris did regarding his death, no matter how he died. Chris and Everett both had seen many beautiful places which most likely fueled the need to get more of nature and eventually drove them to leave civilization and depend solely on themselves and the wilderness around them. Another similarity is that both McCandless and Ruess base some of their adventures off of books and both of them made themselves aliases. Neither Chris or Everett were deterred by extenuating physical discomfort, this is defiantly shown by the limited gear Chris takes with him and the letter Everett wrote to his brother about being stung by wild bees. The evidence of relation between Chris McCandless and Everett Ruess is plentiful and shows that people that have never met each other can be similar in so many ways that you could almost mistake one for the other.
Chris and Everett defiantly have a strong relation to each other in a number of ways as stated by Jon Krakauer. One of the best relations is that they both absolutely love the wilderness; in fact they both love it enough to die for it, because we know Chris died in the bus on the Stampede Trail in Alaska. Nobody knows exactly how Everett died but people think he either fell off of a cliff, Drowned, or was murdered. There is really no way of telling because his body was never found or any evidence pointing to any of the accusations. Both McCandless and Ruess had short lives, dieing in their 20s. They also probably would have agreed that they lived their lives out how they wanted to and were happy. Despite Chris’ S.O.S note, I believe Chris loved the way he lived and died the way he wanted to, but he had a deep earning to live on and have a greater relationship with the wild. I believe Ruess would have had the same feelings as Chris did regarding his death, no matter how he died. Chris and Everett both had seen many beautiful places which most likely fueled the need to get more of nature and eventually drove them to leave civilization and depend solely on themselves and the wilderness around them. Another similarity is that both McCandless and Ruess base some of their adventures off of books and both of them made themselves aliases. Neither Chris or Everett were deterred by extenuating physical discomfort, this is defiantly shown by the limited gear Chris takes with him and the letter Everett wrote to his brother about being stung by wild bees. The evidence of relation between Chris McCandless and Everett Ruess is plentiful and shows that people that have never met each other can be similar in so many ways that you could almost mistake one for the other.
sources
Jerman, Steve. “Everett Rues”.
http://everettruess.net.html 30 Apr. 2010.
National Geographic Society. “The Mystery of Everett Ruess.”
http://adventure.nationalgeographic.com/2009/04/everett-ruess/david-roberts-text 30 Apr. 2010.